These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Luke 3
Brit Hadashah 38 verses
- 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judaea, Herod Tetrarch of , his brother Philip Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilene,
- 2 during the High- of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from came to , the son of , in the Desert.
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went into all the district about the proclaiming a of the penitent for the forgiveness of sins;
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as it is written in the book of the , “The voice of one crying aloud! ‘In the Desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.
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- 5 Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill levelled down, the crooked places shall be turned into straight roads, and the rugged ways into smooth;
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and then shall all mankind see Elohim’s .’”
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- 7 Accordingly used to say to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, “O vipers’ brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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Live lives which shall prove your change of ; and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have as our forefather,’ for I tell you that can raise up descendants for from these stones.
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- 9 And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which fails to yield good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire.”
- 10 The crowds repeatedly asked him, “What then are we to do?”
- 11 “Let the man who has two coats,” he answered, “give one to the man who has none; and let the man who has food share it with others.”
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There came also a party of tax-gatherers to be baptized, and they asked him, “Rabbi, what are we to do?”
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- 13 “Do not exact more than the legal amount,” he replied.
- 14 The soldiers also once and again inquired of him, “And we, what are we to do?” His answer was, “Neither intimidate any one nor lay false charges; and be content with your pay.”
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And while the people were in suspense and all were debating in their minds whether might possibly be the Anointed One,
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- 16 he answered the question by saying to them all, “As for me, I am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose very sandal-strap I am not worthy to unfasten: He will baptize you in the Holy and with fire.
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His winnowing-shovel is in His hand to clear out His threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into His storehouse; but the chaff He will burn up in fire unquenchable.”
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With many exhortations besides these he declared the Good News to the people.
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But Herod the Tetrarch, being repeatedly rebuked by him about Herodias his brother’s wife, and about all the wicked deeds that he had done,
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- 20 now added this to all the rest, that he threw into prison.
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Now when all the people had been baptized, and also had been baptized and was praying, the sky opened,
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- 22 and the Holy came down in bodily shape, like a dove, upon Him, and a voice came from Heaven, which said, “Thou art My Son, dearly loved: in Thee is My delight.”
- 23 And He——when He began His ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (it was supposed)
- 24 son of Matthat, son of , son of Melchi, son of Jannai, son of ,
- 25 son of Mattathias, son of , son of , son of Esli, son of Naggai,
- 26 son of Mahath, son of Mattathias, son of Semein, son of Josech, son of Joda,
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son of Johanan, son of Resa, son of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, son of Neri,
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- 28 son of Melchi, son of Addi, son of Cosam, son of Elmadam, son of Er,
- 29 son of , son of Eliezar, son of Jorim, son of Maththat, son of ,
- 30 son of Symeon, son of , son of , son of Jonam, son of Eliakim, son of
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Melea, son of Menna, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of ,
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- 32 son of Jesse, son of Obed, son of , son of Salmon, son of Nahshon,
- 33 son of Amminadab, son of Admin, son of Arni, son of Hezron, son of Perez, son of ,
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son of , son of , son of , son of Terah, son of Nahor,
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son of Serug, son of Reu, son of Peleg, son of Eber, son of Shelah,
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- 36 son of Cainan, son of Arpachshad, son of , son of , son of Lamech,
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son of , son of , son of Jared, son of Mahalalel, son of Kenan,
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son of Enosh, son of , son of , son of .
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